Trans killer inspired by 'Don't F**k With Cats' documentary to be placed in MALE prison and will 'never get parole'

Blake smashed a bottle of vodka over Jorge Martin Carreno's head, strangled him and pushed him into Oxford's River Cherwell.

Carreno's brother Gerardo told Oxford Crown Court: "'It's been sleepless nights and days. Going through the pain of losing a son and a brother is a challenge no family should face."

Mother Carmen also stressed the loss would leave an "open wound" in the family.

Carreno's ex-girlfriend, Irene Hidalgo, labelled the 30-year-old BMW worker a pure soul who only had kind words and a wide smile for everyone.

Blake prowled Oxford's streets on the first Saturday night after Covid restrictions were eased wearing a military-style hooded jacket, and carrying a rucksack containing a "murder kit" complete with a garrotte and leopard print dressing gown cord.

Four months before the killing in July 2021, Blake live-streamed herself killing a neighbour's cat and placing its body in a blender.

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Defence Barrister Richard Sutton KC offered no mitigation on behalf of his client, admitting she would probably never be freed from prison.

He said: "One has to look at Ms Blake's background and decide that she is in one sense a dangerous person.

"It is clear that no parole board will feel she is safe to go back into society."

Blake's ex-partner Ashlynn Bell, who lives in the US, tipped off police about the 26-year-old's involvement in Carreno's murder.

Blake was convicted last week after a three-week trial.

The judge also imposed concurrent two and four-month sentences relating to the cat killing.

Blake will serve the custodial sentence in a male prison, a source cited by The Daily Mail has claimed.

The decision comes after a row erupted following the conviction of transgender rapist Isla Bryson last year.

Justice Chamberlain said: "It is not possible to say exactly how, whether you hit him on the back of his head with a vodka bottle or something else you had in your backpack, then strangled him by applying pressure to the blood vessels just beneath his jaw using your hands or ligature, then putting in the river where he drowned.

"You may have held him down in the water while strangling him. Either way, you intended to kill him, and you did.

"The decision to kill Jorge was not a reaction to something he had said or done - it was not a momentary mistake, it was not a decision made in anger or because your emotions overcame you.

"It is the culmination of a plan you've been considering and formulating for months before, and after July 25 as you showed an obsession with harm and death."

The trial heard Blake, who was previously known as Alice Wang, arrived in the UK from China aged nine and came out to her parents as transgender at the age of 12.